Yet another study on how collegestudents use Facebook has surfaced, and we’ve decided to forward it on to you because, well, it’s actually kind of interesting.

The study from Computers & Education, titled “The relationship between frequency of Facebook use, participation in Facebook activities, and student engagement,” sheds some light on how using Facebook affects its users. Now, you could probably infer the obvious–time spent on Facebook is time spent away from studying and therefore negatively affects its users–but, this study actually differentiates between the various activities on Facebook and illustrates that Facebook will have a positive or negative effect on your education based on the way you use it.

So which activities on Facebook mean you’re being a good student and which mean that you’re…well…not studying up to par?

The study found that certain behaviors on Facebook correlated stronger with student engagement on campus and time spent studying, while other behaviors on Facebook inversely correlated with those things.

So positive predictors of time spent studying and engagment on campus were:

Creating or RSVPing to Events

Commenting on content

The negative predictors were:

Playing games

Posting photos

Facebook chatting

Does it surprise you that certain activities on Facebook correlate with being more engaged on campus and diligent student? Leave comment below!